[Sw-l] A SignWriting symbol by any other name

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List,
October 29, 2023

Thank you Steve, for developing and announcing this new publication… 

version 1.6.0…which supports the symbol ID. 

>  v1.6.0 of the @suton-signwriting/core package



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Val ;-)

Valerie Sutton
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> On Oct 29, 2023, at 7:36 AM, Steve Slevinski <slevin at signpuddle.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi SignWriting list,
> 
> Today I published v1.6.0 of the @suton-signwriting/core package.  The new version includes support for the Symbol ID.
> 
> Symbols of the International SignWriting Alphabet (ISWA) 2010 have several names.  Consider the first symbol.
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> ID of 1
> Symbol ID of 01-01-001-01-01-01
> Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) key of S10000
> SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) of U+40001
> 
> You can see the various conversions and transformations in the @sutton-signwriting/core documentation.
> https://www.sutton-signwriting.io/core/#convert
> 
> Why so many names?
> 
> The Symbol ID is the original name of the symbol.  It contains 6 degrees of information: category, group, base, variation, fill, and rotation.
> 
> The ID is a 16-bit integer.  Useful for storing in a database.
> 
> The Formal SignWriting in ASCII (FSW) name and the SignWriting in Unicode (SWU) name are used when writing signs as words.
> 
> Regards,
> -Steve
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